Moldovan PM says prices for 160 medicines to drop by 40 per cent

Chisinau, 6 October /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip today had a meeting with representatives of the pharmaceutical companies from Moldova. The sides discussed the degree of implementation of a plan of measures agreed upon to create fair conditions on the Moldovan market, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.   

At the meeting, the PM and the pharmaceutical companies reached an agreement on cutting the prices for a wide range of medicines. “At the first stage, we speak about a list of about 160 names of medicines. We are practically talking about the most important and usual medicines, the prices for which will be cut by 40 per cent. This will enter into force on 12 October,” Prime Minister Pavel Filip said at a news conference following the meeting.    

The PM thanked the pharmaceutical companies for the dialogue held, expressing satisfaction with the identification of solutions in the interest of the citizens in need of quality medicines at reasonable prices. “We have achieved a common result, a good one for the citizens of Moldova,” Pavel Filip said. The prime minister noted that the government did not want to impose anything, but to get solutions via dialogue with partners from the business environment and diverse facilities provided. “This is the way a country develops, when it provides the necessary and comfortable conditions to the business,” PM Pavel Filip stressed.    

The representatives of the pharmaceutical companies, for their part, thanked the prime minister for the interest paid to the pharmaceutical sector and medicines market. They also highlighted the good cooperation they had with the government, including the receptivity to proposals made to the cabinet.     

The today’s dialogue between the government and pharmaceutical companies included also other topics, such as enforcement of proposals by pharmaceutical companies on the sector’s de-bureaucratization or recent measures on the medicines market, adopted by the cabinet.   

At the conference, PM Pavel Filip said that, in March 2016, the government had approved an action plan in the medicines sector, with more already implemented measures and with other measures due to be soon adopted, both for the benefit of the citizens and the pharmaceutical industry.

(Editor L. Alcaza)